CD-ROM's,
DAT's,
Hard Disks,
Floppies/Flopticals,
Joysticks,
Magneto Opticals,CDR's (Writeable CD-ROM's), DLT's (Digital Linear Tape), Mice
Here is a list of third party memory suppliers I have compiled from comp.sys.sgi.*/info-iris-* messages. All comments are from the original poster. Only companies that people have actual purchased from are listed. I don't know how good or bad most of them are, but I have been involved in the purchase of Kingston memory from Impediment. I've seen 64MB's of memory installed in a R3000 Indigo, and 128MB in 4 different Indigo2's. All the memory has work fine and I haven't seen any problems with any of it, some of it has been in machines for many years now.
The Indigo's have 3 banks of 4 SIMM's. The largest SIMM's the R3000 model can take is 8MB, for a total memory size of 96MB. The largest SIMM's the R4x00 model can take is 32MB, for a total memory size of 384MB.
The Indy's have 2 banks of 4 SIMM's and can have a maximum of 128MB/bank (4*32MB SIMM's) or 256MB of memory.
The Indigo2's have 3 banks of 4 SIMMs'. All the R4x00 CPU's can have a maximum of 128MB/bank (4*32MB SIMM's) or 384MB total. The R8000 & R10000 CPU machines can have a maximum of 256MB/bank (4*64MB SIMM's) or 768MB. Some SGI engineers have said that one can put a maximum of two 256MB banks in these machines, because of cooling requirements. This would limit an Indigo2 to 640MB. I have many reports that 768MB works fine in an Indigo2 R10000 (3*256MB) including a system I've been using with 768MB for many years.
New 1GB limit on Indigo2'sThe following URL shows where people have installed and used 1GB of memory in R10000 Indigo2's.
http://www.futuretech.vuurwerk.nl/i2gigaram.html
The Octane's have 4 banks of 2 DIMM's. They will take at least 2GB of memory, may be 4GB, not sure. Octane's with a mother board with a part number of 030-1467-001 will go up to 8GB. One does not need R12K CPU's to get to 8GB. I have an Octane with the 030-1467-001 mother board and dual R10K 195Mhz CPU's with 2GB, 512MB, & 128MB DIMM's installed for a total of 2.625GB. The 2GB and 512MB memory kits are Kingston memory purchased from Impediment. Octane Personal Video (EVO) will not work in systems with more than 1.5GB. Trying to find a fix or work around for this problem. However, the rest of the system works fine with the extra memory.
If any one has any updated information, changes, or corrections, please let me know. I try to only keep a list of company names that end users have actually purchased equipment from and are satisfied with that company's products and service. If you have problems with a company, let me know and I'll see about dropping them from the list.
Anacapa
Phone: (800) 800-7056
Contact: Glen Anderson
Educational Sales Rep: Webb Driver
(Life time warranty.)
64MB Indy memory $1388 (April '96)
Camintonn/Z-RAM
Phone: (800) 368-4726
CMSG-R4ind-64 64MB kit: $1500 (April '96)
The Chip Merchant
4870 Viewridge Ave.
San Diego, CA 92123
Phone: (800) 426-6375 (orders only), (619) 268-4774
CITA Technologies, Inc.
860 Broad Street
Emmaus, PA 18049
Phone: (215) 395-0262 (965-3552 old)??
Contact:Jeff Thomas
CMC
Phone: (408) 956-8291
Contact: Debbie Jones
64MB kit (3rd party?): $1350 (April '96)
64MB kit (Kingston): $1825 (April '96)
CompuPlus
130 McCormick Ave, Suite 106
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Phone: (800) 536-7378, (714) 438-1100, FAX: (714) 438-1106
http://www.compu-plus.com
32MB Indigo/R3000 RAM $1598 (July '92)
64MB kit (lifetime): $1335 (April '96)
Dataram Corp.
Corporate
PO Box 7528
Princeton, NJ 08543-7528
Phone: 609-799-0071
FAX: 609-936-1689 (Corporate)
FAX: 609-799-6734 (Sales)
FAX: 609-936-1369 (Product Support)
or
West Cost
Laguna Beach, CA
Phone: 714-376-0444
FAX: 714-376-0448
Phone: (800) 822-0071 (Sales)
http://www.dataram.com
4MB Memory Module for SGI Personal Iris 4D/20
Product Number #D/SIMM/4/9LP-8: $188/4MB (April '92)
128MB R4x00 memory $3000 (April '96)
O2 64MB ~$475 (Aug. '97)
(Life time warranty.)
Datarep Co.
FAX: (408) 730-2121
David M. McWalters, Chip Meyers
100ns Piiceon, Helio: $575(/4MB ?)
80ns: $625 (early March '90)
Epoch Sales
Fountain Valley, CA
Phone: (800) 736-3762
Contact:Arlene, x339
O2 64MB $420 (Sept. '97)
Executive Imaging Systems
Philadelphia metro area
Phone: (800) 742-1700
http://www.1eis.com/
Helios Systems
Phone: (408) 432-0292
Contact: Thersa Gill
64MB (7500464) kit (lifetime): $1208 (April '96)
Impediment, Inc.
541 Plain Street
Marshfield, MA 02050
Phone: (781) 834-3800, Alex Sunguroff (car phone): (781) 694-4488
Fax: (781) 834-3666
Email Contact: Kathleen Leu <kathy@impediment.com>
Email Contact: Alexander Sunguroff <alex@impediment.com>
http://www.impediment.com/
4D/20's, 1MB SIMM's $45/MB (Sept. '91)
4D/25, 4MB SIMM's $185 (Oct. '91)
4D Power Series Hi $1425/32MB (May '92)
4D/3X & Indigo, 32MB Kit (KSG32/RPC) $1320 (March '93)
Indigo R4000 32MB Kit, 4MB chips (KSG32/R40) $1364 (Sept. '94)
Indigo R4000 64MB Kit, 16MB chips (KSG64/R40) $556 (Aug. '96)
Indigo2 R4000 128MB Kit, 16MB chips (KSG128/R40) $905 (March '97)
Indigo2 R10000 256MB Kit, 32MB chips (KSG256/R40) $930 (April '99)
O2 256M Kit (KSG-O2/256) $445 (Aug. '99)
OCTANE 64MB Kit (KSG-OCT/64) $430 (Sept. '97)
OCTANE 128MB Kit (KSG-OCT/128) $950 (Sept. '97)
OCTANE 256MB Kit (KSG-OCT/256) $1485 (Jan. '98)
OCTANE 512MB Kit (KSG-OCT/512) $875 (Aug. 2000)
OCTANE 2GB Kit (KSG-OCTR12/2048) $1735 (May 2001)
Onyx 64MB Kit (Hi density, 4MB) (KSG64/R44) $4100 (Jan. '94)
Onyx 256MB Kit (Super density, 16MB) (KSG256/R44) $6831 (July '96)
Origin 64MB Kit (KSG-ORIG/64) $935 (June '97)
Origin 128MB Kit (KSG-ORIG/128) CALL (June '97)
Origin 512MB Kit (KSG-ORIG/512) $7990 (Sept. '97)
(As of October 17, the memory wasn't available yet. Stay tuned.)
Printer memory:
Canon CLBP 460PS 64MB (D864001) $90 (June 2000)
Tektronix Phaser 550/560 32MB (KTK-PH550/32) $235 (July '97)
TI microLaser PowerPro Printer 8MB (KTI-MLPRO/8) $358 (May '95)
TI microLaser PowerPro Printer 8MB (KTI-MLPRO/8) $358 (May '95)
HP Laser Printer 4MB (KTH4P/4) $134 (Dec '95)
HP Laser Printer 8MB (KTH4P/8) $268 (Dec '95)
HP Laser Printer 16MB (KTH4P/16) $508 (Dec '95)
(Have done all my 3rd party memory business with this company.
Life Time replacement guarantee on memory, not 90 days like
some companies)
INLINE CORPORATION
12110 Sunset Hills Road #450
Reston, Virginia 22090 USA
Phone: (800) INLINE-7 (800-465-4637), 703-478-0800; FAX: (703) 478-0966
Email Contact: John Tibbitts: john@inlinecorp.com
Email Contact: Jim Fernandez: jim@inlinecorp.com
http://www.inlinecorp.com/
64MB memory for Indigo2 & Indy $1275 (May '96)
128MB memory for Indigo2 & Indy $2525 (May '96)
64MB memory for Challenge/Onyx $2725 (May '96)
256MB memory for Challenge/Onyx $10,825 (May '96)
512MB memory for Challenge/Onyx $15,400 (July '96)
(Life Time replacement guarantee on memory)
(GSA# is GS-35F-4143D)
JLS Marketing
Phone: (800) 819-8755
O2 64MB $600 (March '97)
Kingston Technology Group
17600 Newhope Street
Fountain Valley, CA 92708
Phone: (714) 435-2667, (714) 438-2776
http://www.kingston.com/
KSG16/R40 (16MB memory for Indigo2) $609 (Oct. '95)
KSG32/R40 (32MB memory for Indigo2) $1218 (Oct. '95)
KSG65/R40 (64MB memory for Indigo2) $1945 (April '96)
KSG128/R40 (128MB memory for Indigo2) $4494 (Oct. '95)
KSG256/R40 (256MB memory for Indigo2) $8988 (Oct. '95)
Larsen Sales
Phone: (800) 297-8051
requires an access code to get through?!?!?!
Legasys Systems International (was Legacy)
1006 Depot Hill Road, Suite 102
Broomfield, CO 80020
Phone: (800) 955-4229, (303) 469-6114, FAX: (303) 469-4699
California office: (714) 851-9984
http://legasys.com/
32MB for Indy/Indigo/Indigo^2 R4K $870 (March '96)
64MB for Onyx/Challenge $3885 (Sept '94)
Memory X, Inc.
3954 Murphy Canyon Road, Suite D 104
San Diego, CA 92123
Phone: (619) 292-1151, FAX: (619) 292-0774
The phone number is pointing to another company. (screwed up CO)(April '96)
http://www.memoryx.net/sgimemory.html
Gary W. Smith (April '92)
MXD94000SM-80 $169/4MB (qty 16)
MXD94000SM-80 $165/4MB (qty 32)
nStor Corporation, Inc.(was Parity Systems Inc.)
450 Technology Park
Lake Mary, FL 32746
Phone (sales): (800) 724-3511, (407) 829-3500, FAX: (407) 829-3633
Canada
1595-16th Avenue
Suite 301
Richmond Hill, Ontario
LAB 3N9 Canada
1MB 80ns SIMM's in Sun 3/x0's and SGI 4D/25's. $66US. (mid Jul/90)
4MB 80ns SIMM's in Sun 3/x0's $400 (mid Jul/90)
4MB 80ns SIMM's in SGI 4D/25's. $136/4MB (April '92)
32MB for 4D/35, Indigo/R3000 (4MB SIMM's) $1484 (Aug. '93)
64MB Indigo2 Kit ((lifetime) $1512 (April '96)
No problems, fast ship, life-time warranty.
Paragon Memory
Phone: (800) 643-8866
Contact: Keith Carpenter x24
64MB kit (lifetime) $1500 (April '96)
Peripheral Solutions
108 DuBois Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Phone: (800) 255-3475, 408-425-8280, Fax: 408-425-5792
Email: kimberly@alldisk.com
http://www.alldisk.com/
128MB memory for Indigo2 $414 (April '99)
O2 64MB kit (Kingston) $295 (Feb. '98)
Origin 128MB Kit $1175 (Feb. '98)
Pinacle Sales International
2005 Hamilton Ave, Suite 220
San Jose, CA 95125: Jonathan Ward
Phone: (408) 559-8544, FAX: (408) 559-8548
4D/25, 1MB SIMM's, $97/MB; 4D/200 2MB SIMM's, $315/2MB (July '90)
RCH Products, Inc.
998 Old Eagle School Rd.
Suite 1211
Wayne, Pennsylvania 19087
Phone: (800) 238-6346, FAX: (610) 902-0410
Contact: Melisa Civitella, Email: melisac@rchproducts.com
64MB Memory for Indigo2/Indy's $1250 (May '96)
128MB Memory for Indigo2/Indy's $750 (May '00)
Recurrent Technologies
3270 Keller Avenue, Suite 114
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Phone: (408) 727-1122, FAX: (408) 727-8002
Email: brandon@recurrent.com
http://www.recurrent.com/
Sigma Data Inc.
Phone: (800) 446 - 4525
Contact: Lisa Spana
2MB strips, 80ns (KSG-8000 kit for 4D/XXX), ~$210/MB (July '90)
64MB Indigo2 kit: $1735 (April '96)
Sophisticated Circuits
19017 120th Ave N.E.
Bothel, WA 98011
FAX: (206) 485-7172.
Memory for 4D 20's, 1MB SIMM's, $125/MB (January '90)
SGI-H4-C04X $169/4MB (April '92)
SGI-HU-C16B $589/16MB $147.25/4MB (April '92)
"...about the 4th time I have bought memory from them.
Last year I got a batch of bad chips and they promptly
replaced them with no hassle. The original memory I
bought is still working fine, just about 2 years."
South Coast Electronics
Phone: (213) 208-3260 *** disconnected phone # *** (April '96)
Contact: Bob Rich
SC94000/08: 4MB Memory Upgrade, $1652 (Sept. '90)
80ns Toshiba or Hitachi
Spectrum Trading
Kingston memory reseller.
http://www.spectrum-t.com/
(Reliability of company: Unknown)
KSG-O2/64 MEM-64-O2 64MB Kit $710 (Feb. '97)
Systems Research (wholesale only)
Phone: (415) 940-1890
Contact: Peter Kikos
80ns Hitachi: $595(/4MB ?)
Tahoe Peripherals Inc.
760 Margrave Drive Suit 100
Reno, NV 89501-3522
Phone: 1-800-288-6040, (702) 823-2222 (resellers ext 1776, govt ext 1954)
FAX: (702) 823-2200
Email Contact: mw@tahoe-peripherals.com
http://www.tahoe-peripherals.com/
Indy 64MB Kit, 16MB chips (KSG64/R40A) $605 (Sept. '96)
Technology Works
Austin, TX
Phone: 800-622-2210
Contact: Kristina
Memory for SPARCstation 1+, 4MB SIMM's 80ns, $520/4Meg (mid April '90)
The Chip Merchant
http://www.thechipmerchant.com
Indigo2 128MB (10350 8x36-60 [32MB]) $62.00 (April '98)
Indigo2 256MB (10355 16x36-60 [64MB]) $155.00 (April '98)
O2 256MB $689.00 (June '98)
WAL-MART
http://www.wal-mart.com
Indigo2 R4000 128MB Kit, 16MB chips (KSG128/R40) $973.35 (April '97)
O2 64MB Kit $673.80 (April '97)
Western Scientific
4631 Viewridge Ave.
San Diego, CA 92123
Phone: (800) 443-6699, 619-565-6699, Fax: 619-565-6938
Email: info@wsm.com
http://www.wsm.com
Contact: Ajay
Onyx 256MB Kit (Super density, 16MB) $6820 (July '96)
ZZYZX Workstation Peripherals
5893 Oberlin Dr., STE 104
San Diego, CA 92121
Phone:(800) 876-7818, (619) 558-7800, FAX: (619) 558-8283
North East territory: John Cusumano Email:will@zzyzx.com
South East territory: Mark McKinzie
North Central territory: Scott Hoyt
South Central territory: Mike Abshire
West Coast territory: Will J. Grupenhoff Email:will@zzyzx.com
Government Contracts: Diane McDonnell
http://www.zzyzx.com/
64MB Indigo2 kit (16MB SIMM's, lifetime): $1395 (April '96)
Onyx 256MB Kit (Super density, 16MB) $7015 (July '96)
Datacorp Technology
65 St. Joseph`s Road,
Greenhills, Walkinstown,
Dublin 12, Ireland.
This company BUYS and sells new & used memory.
Phone: (int) 353 1 4506400, (int) 353 1 087-416715
FAX: (int) 353 1 4564448
Email: mky@internet-eireann.ie,tpm@internet-eireann.ie
I've been told they no longer sell memory for SGI's.
If you have more information on this, please let me know.
ITN GmbH
Flughafendamm 27
28199 Bremen, Germany
Email: itn@itn-bremen.de
http://www.itn-bremen.de/
nStor Corporation, Inc.(was Parity Systems Inc.)
International Sales
Tavistock House
34/36 Bronham Road
Bedford MK40 2QD
United Kingdom
Phone: +44(0)1234 213571
Fax: +44(0)1234 267715
OCSL (Organised Computer Systems Limited)
East House,
New Pound Common,
Wisborough Green,
West Sussex,
England,
RH14 0AZ,
United Kingdom.
Phone: (+44) (0)1403 700959, FAX: (+44) (0)1403 700969
Email: info@ocsl.co.uk
Q Associates Limited
Langley Business Court,
Beedon,
Newbury,
Berkshire,
England,
RG20 8RY,
United Kingdom.
Phone: (+44) (0)1635 248181,
FAX: (+44) (0)1635 248697 (admin), (+44) (0)1635 247616 (sales)
Email: info@qassoc.co.uk
REALITY COMPUTING LIMITED
The Bothy, Albury Park, Albury, Guildford, Surrey GU5 9BH, UK
Phone: (+44) (0)1483 202051
FAX: (+44) (0)1483 203078
Email: info@reality-comp.co.uk
http://www.reality-comp.co.uk/
Silicon Graphics Authorised Reseller/Rental Supplier
also networking (100BaseT, Gigaswitches etc), memory upgrades etc
SGD PERIPHERALS LIMITED
TBAC Business Centre, Boston House, Grove Technology Park, Wantage OX12 9FF
Phone/FAX: (+44) (0)1235 766065
Email: sales@sgdp.co.uk
http://www.sgdp.co.uk/
Specialise in supplying a wide range of hardware upgrades and peripherals
for the complete range of Silicon Graphics workstations and servers.
Transtec Computers Ltd.
Balliol House,
Banbury Business Park,
Adderbury,
Oxon,
England,
OX17 3WS.
Phone: (+44) (0)1295 814201 (North and Midlands)
(+44) (0)1295 814202 (London and South)
FAX: (+44) (0)1295 810011
Email: transtec.uk@transtec.de
WWW: http://www.transtec.co.uk/
Note 1: Some one said they tried Hitachi SIMM's in a Personal Iris and they didn't work. Toshiba 4MB SIMM's seem to work in 4D25's. Others may work if Toshiba SIMM's are in the first bank. Note 2: Indigo, Indigo2, & Indy systems with R4x00 or newer CPU's use `standard' 72 pin PC-style pop-up SIMM's, 36-bit, with TRUE parity (9 chips), must support page-mode access, 60-70ns. EDO memory will NOT work. Also some memory labelled 70ns may actually be 72ns or more, so be careful. Memory must be installed in WHOLE banks at one time or in other words in groups of 4 SIMM's. A bank must have all the same type of memory.
My other SGI 3rd party hardware lists:
CD-ROM's,
DAT's,
Hard Disks,
Floppies/Flopticals,
Joysticks,
Magneto Opticals,
CDR's (Writeable CD-ROM's),
DLT's (Digital Linear Tape),
Mice
If you have any additions, corrects, or updates to the above information, please email me at: blbates@vigyan.com, thanks.
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